Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)
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368. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount paid in consultancy fees to date by his Department, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland and the National Transport Authority for the Zero Emissions Vehicles Ireland initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12748/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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Zero Emission Vehicles Ireland (ZEVI) is an office within the Department of Transport which coordinates and delivers measures to support the uptake of zero emission vehicles and the rollout of charge point infrastructure to accelerate progress towards Ireland’s ambitious electric vehicle targets. The Government is fully committed to supporting a significant expansion of the electric vehicle charging network over the coming years.

Since the office was formed in 2022, €969,838.16 has been spent on consultancy across a variety of different areas including programme and project management support, communications, translation cost, and environmental assessments relating to the development, publication and roll-out of ZEVI's strategies and plans, including;

• Research and surveys used to inform the development of the National EV Charging Infrastructure Strategy.
• Tax advisory services regarding EV incentives in Budget Proposals.
• Support in the establishment of ZEVI as an office, the development of its various workstreams and the management and delivery of priority projects such as the National Road EV Charging Network Plan, and the Regional and Local Road EV Charging Network Plan, Universal Design Guidelines and the development of a data strategy for EV charging infrastructure.
• Design and development support for ZEVI's standalone website.
• Translation and graphic design for all of ZEVI's published strategies and plans
• The development of environmental assessment reports for EV charging network plans